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The Religions of India

CHAPTER VI
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121) is Praj[=a]pati found as the personal Father-god and All-god.

At a time when philosophy created the one Universal Male Person, the popular religion, keeping pace, as far as it could, with philosophy, invented the more anthropomorphized, more human, Father-god--whose name is ultimately interpreted as an interrogation, God Who?
This trait lasts from now on through all speculation.

The philosopher conceived of a first source.

The vulgar made it a personal god.
One of the most remarkable hymns of this epoch is that on V[=a]c, Speech, or The Word.

Weber has sought in this the prototype of the Logos doctrine (below).


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